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Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 201, part A (pp. 8-160) and Part B (167-76), is a collection of homilies and laws that includes the
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Old English Handbook</span>. This description is concerned with the texts on ff. 114-25.
Most of the manuscript has been edited several times; it is a key source for Old
English laws. Contents of Parts A and B include:<dir>
A.  <span style="font-weight: bold;">Regularis concordia; Bede, De die judicii</span>, s. xi in.<br/>
B.  <span style="font-weight: bold;">Homilies, laws, etc.,</span> s. xi<sup>med</sup><br/>
Ker describes the manuscript as follows:<br/>
"B. Pp. 8-160, 167-76.  A miscellany, mainly of homilies printed by Napier 1883, and
of laws printed by Thorpe 1840, and in part by Liebermann 1903.  Described by
Whitelock 1948, 437-8.  For art. 50, see also Raith 1933, xx.  Referred to by Thorpe,
Liebermann, etc., as D, and by Napier as C" (p. 83).</dir><br/>

The manuscript is dated s. xi<sup>in</sup> or xi<sup>med</sup> and is possibly associated with Winchester.
Catalogue numbers: Ker #49; Gneuss #65, 65.5.</p>
	     <p>With permission of the Parker Library, Cambridge University, two pages of this manuscript are reproduced below: <a href="mshd201.html#115">p. 115</a> and <a href="mshd201.html#117">p. 117</a>. <a href="msch201.html">Table 1</a> shows the content of the manuscript by folio.

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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Dimensions:</span> C. 280 x 162 mm. Written space c. 250 x 122 mm. Rebound in 1948:  the previous
binding was of s. xvii (Ker, p. 90).</br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Page layout:</span> Foliation markers pen/pencil:  89 folios, paginated in red pencil on rectos, preceded by
two paper flyleaves of the date of binding and two parchment flyleaves, x. xvi (Ker, p.
90). In quire 1 the pricks to guide ruling are within the script area (Ker, p. 90).
Average no. of  lines per page:  41 long lines (20 lines pp. 171-80).  
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Structure markers</span> include ornamental capitals, with initials in red or green. Titles in
red rustic capitals.  Other markers:  paragraphs; blanks; rubrication; columns;
incipits/explicits; indentations / headings; brackets; and marginalia. Rulings: dry-point. Collation:  89 folios.

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<p>The <span style="font-weight: bold;">OE Handbook</span> occurs as article 50.  Ker specifies that "Part B is in three
hands of s. xi in.: 
(1) arts. 1-55, 57 insular a in Latin as well as in OE: &aelig; regularly for WS e before a
covered nasal:  the first letter of a sentence filled with red; (2) art. 56:  u commonly
for WS f, e.g., u&aelig;tte, beuoran, hlauord; (3) art. 48." </br>
Signs of correction: Ker notes that some alterations are of s. xii, see e.g., Napiers's
footnotes to p. 83/13, 155/14, 191/15. In articles 33-35, initials h before w
and the prefix ge- have often been erased (see Napier, footnotes to pp. 81-90). 
Joscelyn wrote a note on p. 40. Parker quotes from p. 82 in <span style="font-weight: bold;">De antiquitate
Britannicae ecclesiae</span>, 1572, p. 63 (see Ker, p. 83).</p>
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Ker adds these comments: 
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"Joscelyn's copy of art. 46, Cotton Vitellius D.vii, fl. 145, is stated by him to be
"ex oxoniensi lib. D. Cradoke' (Edward Cradock, Lady margaret Professor of divinity
from1575 until 1594).  Probably Parker obtained the manuscript (from Cradock?)
and bound it with no. 50, but the volume thus formed does not seem to have come to
Corpus Christi College at the same time as his other manuscripts, since the entry
which refers to it, 'Miscellan. Saxonice', is an adition at the end of the S section, both
in the Trinity Hall and Corpus Christi college copies of Parker's list of gifts, and, like
other books not received by the college, it is not entered in the copy at Lambeth
Palace, MS. 723.  On the other hand, it is likely to be the 'Miscellan. Saxonice' in
John Parker's book-list, Lambeth Palace MS. 737, f. 163v. It was at Corpus by 1600
(T. James, no. 284) and was assigned the mark S18.  For the relations of part B to
part A see above, p. 82.  Wanley, p. 137"  (p. 90).</dir>
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Joscelyn transcribed a list of the resting places of saints from MS 201, pp. 147-51, in
Cotton Vitellius D.vii (fol. 144rv), and transcribed pp. 101-103 of MS 201 on fol. 145 of the
Cotton MS.  On Joscelyn's handwriting, see Ker, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Catalogue</span>, p. 75;
there is a sample in MS CCCC 265, p. 177 (=MS C).  This information is taken
from  Judith Sanders Gale, "John Joscelyn's Notebook:  A Study  of the Contents and
Sources of B. L., Cotton MS, Vitellius D. vii," unpublished University of Nottingham
M.Phil. thesis, 1978. (I thank Ray I. Page for bringing this study to my attention.)
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<p>pp. 114-15 Latin.  Handbook, 1. On p. 115 lines 1-13, containing the passage 'Confessio
ueniam . . . Sequitur oratio', have been erased (Ker).<br/>
pp. 115-17. Handbook, 2 and 3. (Ker notes: Thorpe's sect. v-xi, beg. '&AElig;fter &thorn;isum
arise
eadmodlice', occur here in a separate paragraph (pp. 115/37-117/2) between the
words 'toscadann' and 'Ylde' in the middle of sect. iv (Th. 262/5):  they do not occur
in C. C.. C. C. 265 (no. 53) or in Brussels 8558-63 (no. 10), but are in Tib. A. iii
(no. 186), art. 9, where they precede sect. i-iv."<br/>
pp. 117-21. Handbook 4<br/>
pp. 121-24. Handbook 5 <br/>
pp. 124, 125. Handbook 6<br/>
p. 170    Handbook 1, in different hand from fol. 114-15 above.<br/>
pp. 170-76.  <expan>Latin</expan>.  Forms of absolution, confession, etc.,<br/>
pp. 171-74, a bifolium "misbound before p. 175, instead of after p. 176" (Ker).
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<p>Handbook 4, which begins "&ETH;as &thorn;eawas man healt begeondan
s&aelig;," is
composed of sections of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">OE Penitential</span>. Ker notes that sections 1-31 were
extracted from the OE version of Halitgar's <span style="font-weight: bold;">Penitential</span> (ed. Raith 1933, 1) and that sections
32-35 "agree exactly with the additions to the fourth book" of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">[OE] Penitential</span> in
no. 338 (pr. Raith).</p>
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MS D is the only source for the "long version," or 51.01.00-56.07.01, of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">OE
Handbook</span>. Book II is awkwardly interpolated into Book III.  MS D also
contians two versions of Book I (both are incomplete:  the first, pp. 114-15, is mostly
erased; the second, p. 170, follows Book I for only a short way and then differs
completely from it.
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<p>On the contents of the manuscript, see Patrick Wormald's detailed discussion in <span style="font-weight: bold;">The
Making of English Law</span>, pp. 206-10, 222, 295, 302, 309, 314, 332-33, 391-96.</p>
<p>This manuscript also contains a group of five Old English poems, including "Judgment
Day II" (also known   as "Bede's Death Song"), "An Exhortation to Christian Living,"
A Summons to Prayer," "The Lord's Prayer II," and "The Gloria I."   These poems have
been seen as a "penitential" sequence by Graham D. Caie, <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Judgment Day
Theme in Old English Poetry</span> (Publications of the Department of English,
University of Copenhagen, 2 [Copenhagen: Nova, 1976]) and <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Old English Poem
"Judgement Day II</span> (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000). Caie notes, for example,
that the first poem ("Judgment Day II"), which ends with an image of the saved souls among flowers, is
connected to the second ("An Exhortation to Christian Living"), which begins with a reference to the "blossoming
realm,"  by a rubric, "Her enda&eth; &thorn;eos boc &thorn;e hatte inter florigeras.
&eth;&aelig;t is on englisc betwyx blowende" (Her ends this book which is called
<expan>inter florigeras</expan>, that is, between the blossoming ones"; Caie, <span style="font-weight: bold;">The
Judgment Day Theme</span>, pp. 115-16. </p>

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MS D, Part A, art. 2:   418 lines of alliterative verse:<br/>
a) pp. 161-65, 301 lines, "Incipt uersus Bede presbiteri. De die iudicii"; <br/>
b) pp. 165-66, 82 liiines, "Ne l&aelig;re ic &thorn;e. swa man leofne sceal";<br/>
c) pp. 166-67, 31 lines, "&ETH;&aelig;nne gemiltsa&eth; &thorn;e .N. mundum qui
regit" (macaronic, first half-line OE, second Latin).<br/>
Ed. Dobbie, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems</span> (ASPR 6), 58-70.
See Ker, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Catalogue</span>, p. 83.
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<a href="msch201.html">Table 1</a> lists of the chapters of the manuscript by folio.</p>
<p>Here are two facsimile pages.<br/>
<a name="115">P. 115</a> shows the erased sections of D51 (the first book of the OE Handbook), which is followed by Book 3, which in turn is followed by Book 2. Note that the scribe mistakenly truncated Book 3 (at D53.08.01, ending toscadan, 6 lines from the bottom) and began Book 2.<br/>
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On <a name="117">P. 117</a>, at D53.01.02, the scribed resumed the truncated text of D53.08.01, with a rubricaed Y, Ylde, actually the concluding phrase of D53.08.01 and not a separate canon at all. The fourth book of the OE Handbook follows.<br/>
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